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Specification of Letters Patent.`

Patented April 10, 1906.

Application filed August 18, i905. Serial No. 274,709.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES O. WILHELM, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Limaville, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio,have invented a new and Improved Account-File, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide an account-file which willalso serve as a registry of the accounts filed therein and to soconstruct the iile that the captions of all of the outermost billscontained in the le and accumulated in one or more days or in a givenperiod of time will be visible at a glance and the underlying bills willbe equally visible as the outermost ones are removed.

A further purposeof the invention is to so construct and mount the pinsreceiving the bills that the bills are not liable to accidentally slipfrom off the pins and so that the bills will hang vertically downward,the body portions of all the bills being concealed, as the front of thecasino extends down far enough to conceal the body portion of thelowermost row, and a feature of the invention is to duplicate thesum-total of each bill on the heading of the bill adjacent to the nameof the party having the account.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figiu'e 1 is a front view of the improved file having bills hungtherein. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through a le, andFig. 3 is a plan view of a bill adapted to the file.

The body or casing of the le consists of two side pieces IO, havingtheir up er edges 11 and their lower edges 11a incline upward from thesupport for their lower edges. The forward ends 12 of the side pieces 10are vertical, as are likewise their rear ends 13, and their rear ends 13are connected by a crosspiece 14. The side pieces 10 are furtherconnected by a series of cross-bars 15, the said cross-bars beingvertical and arranged adj acent to the upper edges 11 of said side bars.

Pins A occupy an oblique position relative to the cross-bars 15, saidpins being given an upward and forward inclination, (best shown in Fig.2,) the inclination of all of the pins being the same, and each pin A isprovided with a vertical shank 19. The said Shanks are suitably securedin the upper rear portions of the cross-bars 15, which upper rearportions of said cross-bars are inclined.

The rear portion of the frame or casing is supported, preferably, bymeans of legs 16, which are pivoted to the outer sideportions of theside pieces 10, and when the legs are in an upright or supportingposition they are so held by means of hooks 17, likewise pivoted to theouter faces ofthe side pieces 10, which hooks engage pins 18, extendingfrom the legs 16, as is also best shown in Fi 2.

The bills B to be hung on the fgile are provided, as usual, with thename of the debtor at their head portions; but the said bills arefurther provided at said head portions with a duplicate of the sum-totalof a bill, as is shown at B/ in Fig. 3. Usually this duplicate of thesum-total of the bill is placed to the right of the name of the debtorand preferably in alinement therewith. When a bill is to be placed intheiile, the pin upon which it is to be hung is made to enter an openingin the head portion of the bill at or near the center and slightly belowthe line on which the name of the debtor and the duplicate of the sumetotal appear, and as one row of pins rises above the other even shouldall of the pins have bills thereon the head portions of all of theoutermost bills can be read at a glance.

The pins A are preferably arranged in vertical rows or series, as isshown in Fig. 1, and ordinarily -a block 20 is secured to the frontlower portion of the frame or casing by attaching it to a lowerconnecting-bar 21, as is shown in Fig. 2, and in this block 20 anydesired number of cavities 22 are produced, which cavities constitutepockets for the reception of coin; but the block 2O may be omitted, ifdesired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. An account-file, consisting of inclined sidepieces connected at each end by crossbars and intermediate of their endsby a series of spaced cross-bars, legs hinged to the upper ends of theside pieces, hooks hinged to the side pieces and engaging the legs tohold them in position, and pins having angular Shanks secured to theintermediate crossbars, whereby the pins will occupy an oblique positionrelative to the said cross-bars, the pins being arranged in rows.

2. An account-file, comprising inclined side pieces connected togetherat their upper ends and sup orted at said end by legs, a series ofspacel cross-bars arranged in parallel Vertical planes between theinclined side pieces with their upper edges a short distance below theupper edges of said side pieces, and pins having angular Shanks securedto said cross-bars, whereby the pins will stand at right angles to theinclined side pieces.

3. An accountle, comprising inclined

